On Tyler Meredith and the beige defence of the conventions that eat us Tyler. I owe you the courtesy of writing this in plain English, because the courtesy you extended to my post on the SEU was a phrase, deployed to deflect, that does not survive a careful read. “Just an explanation of the political… Continue reading Bitch, please →
In the workhouse scene every Canadian schoolchild used to know, Oliver Twist asks for more gruel. He is the smallest in the room, the most vulnerable, the one with the least standing. The other boys, who are equally hungry, push him forward because they are afraid to ask themselves. Oliver walks the length of the… Continue reading Please, Ottawa, I Want Some More →
Mark Carney’s Spring Economic Update tells a tidy little story. The 2025–26 deficit is $66.9 billion — a full $11.5 billion lower than projected in Budget 2025. Future deficits decline to $53.2 billion by 2030–31. Debt-to-GDP is “stable.” Canada has the lowest net debt-to-GDP in the G7. Canada Strong! Canada Strong For All! Canada Strong… Continue reading So Long, and Thanks for All the Pharmacare →
The 2026 Census Has Landed. Fill It Out — and If You Got the Long Form, Wear It Like a Badge. The envelope showed up this week. Beige. Bilingual. Statistics Canada return address, PO Box 99995. Inside: your 2026 Census questionnaire and one of the most consequential pieces of mail you will handle this year.… Continue reading Long Form, Long Memory →
Twenty years ago, on a 30 Seconds to Mars song, Jared Leto sings “Bury me, bury me / I am finished with you.” Still emo and still doing the work — a melodrama about wanting to be unseen by someone who already isn’t looking. It has been on my mind for two weeks. Let me… Continue reading The Kill: On a Prime Minister Who Is Finished with Women, Quietly →
The Spring Economic Update 2026 has a slogan. It’s everywhere. On the cover. In the title of every chapter. Embedded in the introduction in the kind of language that sounds like it came out of a values workshop: “We are building a Canada that is not just strong, but good; not just prosperous, but fair.… Continue reading Privatize the Upside, Socialize the Guarantee →
You know that friend who keeps dating the same kind of terrible person? The one who swears each new partner is different, and then six months in you’re hearing the same complaints about the same red flags you saw on day one? At some point, a good friend has to sit them down and say:… Continue reading It’s Not Me, It’s Them: A Breakup Letter to the Calgary School →
So here we are. Pierre Poilievre has gone on a podcast to inform the nation that Mark Carney — Harvard BA in economics, Oxford MPhil and DPhil in economics, former Governor of two G7 central banks — is “badly educated on economics.” Andrew Scheer is running the “sure — ‘the expert'” scare-quote routine on social… Continue reading Forget the Credentials. The Record Is Dismal on Both Sides. →
